ROCHESTER — Tuesday morning, the third suspect in a shooting incident on Meetinghouse Hill Road in Farmington reported last month was arraigned in Rochester Circuit Court.

Officials say they will not comment on the case so as not to compromise their ongoing investigation, though it has been revealed that both a Lebanon, Maine, man, and a Somersworth man were shot by the alleged victim in the incident at the Farmington residence.

Matthew T. Roaf, 22, of 33 Second St., Lebanon, Maine, did not enter a plea before the court because he is charged with felony-level charges for robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. Following a probable cause hearing at the district level, if probable cause is found to proceed with the charges, Roaf’s case will be bound over to Strafford County Superior Court in Dover. He was previously released on $100,000 personal recognizance bail after turning himself into authorities.

The two other suspects in this case — Stephen Roy, 24, of Lords Court, Somersworth, and Joshua Dionne, 27, of Market Street, North Berwick, Maine — have each waived their probable cause hearings and now await hearings before superior court.

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Matthew Roaf

In the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 11, officials allege the three suspects went to a residence at 316 Meetinghouse Hill Road. Roy entered the building with a machete and, according to a complaint, demanded drugs and money from a person there. The complaints say Dionne drove Roaf and Roy to the residence and waited for them outside the residence in a truck when they went inside.

Roaf suffered a gunshot wound to the torso at that house and was treated at Portsmouth Regional Hospital where he allegedly told officials he was rather shot while riding a four-wheeler vehicle in Barrington. Around the same time, Roy went to York Hospital in Maine for treatment for a gunshot wound to the head. He checked himself out that day and reportedly refused to cooperate with police there.

Roy is being held on $100,000 cash bail given his lengthy criminal history, a Rochester Circuit Court judge ruled.

Dionne is charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit and Farmington police say the same charges are apply to Roy, though court records show he is rather charged with conspiracy and two counts of burglary with a deadly weapon. Officials could not account for the discrepancy Tuesday afternoon though Police Chief Kevin Willey said he confirmed with Strafford County Attorney Tom Velardi Roy’s charges have not changed since his arrest last month.

At an arraignment for Roy, officials said the charges are Class A felonies, given the nature of the alleged crimes.